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  • loveswalking
    loveswalking Posts: 355 Member
    congrats on your 17.6 lbs. plus the inches lost on your waist. You are doing really great on the 5:2. Do you eat at your TDEE on NFD's?
  • snaps27
    snaps27 Posts: 960 Member
    Foamroller wrote: »
    8th week of 5:2. I'm down 8 kg (ca 17.6 lbs) total and 12 cm in waist! Taking a break from fasting this week cause of the long awaited spinning instructor practical course. But I'll log on MFP. Have a great week, everybody:)

    Amazing loss! Great Job!
  • mwhite61451
    mwhite61451 Posts: 209 Member
    edited October 2014
    Oct 9th was my first fast day, I'm down 12 lbs. Only lost 1.2 this week (so far-my next FD is tomorrow), but can't do my usual workouts because of job.
    As I indicated before, I'm doing this in conjunction with Whole30 and 8:16. Seems to be working well. Whole30 keeps me from eating the crap I otherwise would eat and 8:16 (which I do on FD and days not directly preceding or following FD) keep me from eating too late.
  • Neonbeige
    Neonbeige Posts: 271 Member
    Wow, amazing results @foamroller! You did also pretty nicely @mwhite! Really cool.

    I finished my first fasting day yesterday and it went fine. I only had dinner, because it´s easier for me to eat nothing than having small meals. Had a huge salad with some yummy ingredients for dinner and feel good. During the day I drank about five liters of water and tea o_O

    I love the fact that a "normal" breakfast was waiting for me today. No: you cannot have carbs, you cannot have milk in your coffee or stuff like this. Just normal breakfast. Incredible!

  • loveswalking
    loveswalking Posts: 355 Member
    mwhite: great job on losing 12 lbs. so far...........
  • carlsoda
    carlsoda Posts: 3,429 Member
    Foamroller wrote: »
    8th week of 5:2. I'm down 8 kg (ca 17.6 lbs) total and 12 cm in waist! Taking a break from fasting this week cause of the long awaited spinning instructor practical course. But I'll log on MFP. Have a great week, everybody:)

    Good luck with the class!

  • carlsoda
    carlsoda Posts: 3,429 Member
    Neonbeige wrote: »
    Wow, amazing results @foamroller! You did also pretty nicely @mwhite! Really cool.

    I finished my first fasting day yesterday and it went fine. I only had dinner, because it´s easier for me to eat nothing than having small meals. Had a huge salad with some yummy ingredients for dinner and feel good. During the day I drank about five liters of water and tea o_O

    I love the fact that a "normal" breakfast was waiting for me today. No: you cannot have carbs, you cannot have milk in your coffee or stuff like this. Just normal breakfast. Incredible!

    Great job!! And yes, you can have a normal breakfast today :)

  • carlsoda
    carlsoda Posts: 3,429 Member
    snaps27 wrote: »
    Foamroller wrote: »
    8th week of 5:2. I'm down 8 kg (ca 17.6 lbs) total and 12 cm in waist! Taking a break from fasting this week cause of the long awaited spinning instructor practical course. But I'll log on MFP. Have a great week, everybody:)

    Amazing loss! Great Job!

    Wow - what a great loss! I just read the 8 kgs and assumed lbs as I am very tired right now! Keep up the good work!!! :smile:

  • carlsoda
    carlsoda Posts: 3,429 Member
    mwhite61451 wrote: »
    Oct 9th was my first fast day, I'm down 12 lbs. Only lost 1.2 this week (so far-my next FD is tomorrow), but can't do my usual workouts because of job.
    As I indicated before, I'm doing this in conjunction with Whole30 and 8:16. Seems to be working well. Whole30 keeps me from eating the crap I otherwise would eat and 8:16 (which I do on FD and days not directly preceding or following FD) keep me from eating too late.

    Nice loss!! You are doing great! So what's Whole30? I'm thinking it's something to do with clean eating?
  • Neonbeige
    Neonbeige Posts: 271 Member
    carlsoda wrote: »
    Neonbeige wrote: »
    Wow, amazing results @foamroller! You did also pretty nicely @mwhite! Really cool.

    I finished my first fasting day yesterday and it went fine. I only had dinner, because it´s easier for me to eat nothing than having small meals. Had a huge salad with some yummy ingredients for dinner and feel good. During the day I drank about five liters of water and tea o_O

    I love the fact that a "normal" breakfast was waiting for me today. No: you cannot have carbs, you cannot have milk in your coffee or stuff like this. Just normal breakfast. Incredible!

    Great job!! And yes, you can have a normal breakfast today :)

    I love that fact! :-D I am breakfast and carbs lover. Having to stop eating buns on the weekends with the family is heartbreaking (even without the family, hehe). But in germany we usually don´t have warm breakfast, so it´s also habitual.
  • Tiamo719
    Tiamo719 Posts: 256 Member
    Welcome Neon! How was your fast day?
  • Neonbeige
    Neonbeige Posts: 271 Member
    Thank you! It was fine actually. I drank huge amounts of unsweetened tea and water and ate a nice salad for dinner which added up to almost exactly 500 calories including the toppings (feta etc) . Today is my second day and I am very positive about it, want to stay with the keeping the calories for dinner.
  • Foamroller
    Foamroller Posts: 1,041 Member
    edited October 2014
    Thanks everyone for the compliments about my weight loss so far:) It's very encouraging!
    loveswalking wrote: »
    congrats on your 17.6 lbs. plus the inches lost on your waist. You are doing really great on the 5:2. Do you eat at your TDEE on NFD's?

    No, I don't eat the recommended TDEE. The different TDEE calculators give me a range from 2200-1500 kcal a day. This is a pretty useless number in order to find out the "state of affairs".

    I don't even know my maintenance intake! I use my spreadsheet to track NET intake, to try find out what my actual balance intake is. It certainly isn't 1200. I'm insulin resistant and was possibly pre-diabetic (red light on 2/3 on checklist). I'm only 160 cm (5"3) and 43 years old. Maybe my lower BMR is because of my medical condition.

    So I really do wonder about the logic in the 1200 kcal all-purpose kcal limit. It just seems a bit strange to me that a man who is 6 feet tall and is 25 (with more muscles), should have the same limit as a middle aged woman like me:P Maybe MFP doesn't want malnutrition lawsuits...

    So TDEE-method doesn't work for me. I'm very active some days, and other days I don't even go out the door. So if I followed the TDEE, I would have to recalculate every day, not worth it for me.

    I loosely follow the MFP to track kcal, macros and nutrients.

    I think as a general concept the CICO does apply in all diet plans. 5:2 is just another strategy in achieving caloric deficit. Meaning the closer you eat to TDEE, the margins for inaccurate logging on both intake and kcal burnt can easily be obliterated. I think that's why many operate with TDEE - 20% on feed days, to make sure they are in deficit.

    So, according to logic, the bigger the deficit, the bigger the loss. The puzzle is to eat enough on feed days to keep energy and nutrition up at acceptable level. Also need to make a contrast to the 500 on FD. If I eat low every day, then I just reverted to a low intake diet plan. Ie. not getting the benefits of "shaking up" metabolism and slowing down kcal adaptation.

    The good thing about IF eating plans is that they are very scaleable. You can customize the deficit down to a pretty concise number by tracking your averages.

    Do I think loosing over 1 kg a week is for everyone? No.

    I'm just showing it's possible to do it and still have lots of energy to workout and keep mental capacities. Not, raving mad, yet... :o And I'll purposely slow down the weekly losses within 3 kg from goal weight.

    I used to take 2-3 servings of dinner...and still chafe down a bag of potato chips as dessert.

    You decide how much you want to loose in a month by eating in moderation.
    Yes, you can do it :)

    You are the boss of your body!
  • jknight001
    jknight001 Posts: 745 Member
    @Foamroller - good post. Wish MFP had "like" for the group posts.
  • flumi_f
    flumi_f Posts: 1,888 Member
    [/quote]So TDEE-method doesn't work for me. I'm very active some days, and other days I don't even go out the door. So if I followed the TDEE, I would have to recalculate every day, not worth it for me.

    I think as a general concept the CICO does apply in all diet plans. 5:2 is just another strategy in achieving caloric deficit. Meaning the closer you eat to TDEE, the margins for inaccurate logging on both intake and kcal burnt can easily be obliterated. I think that's why many operate with TDEE - 20% on feed days, to make sure they are in deficit.

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    @Foamroller
    Changing activity levels is one reason I calculated my TDEE solely for my daily life without workouts. I then add the exercise cals (measured with an hrm) to that. That has worked well for me. Of course with medical conditions, you could be right, that your metabolism is slower than 'normal'.

    TDEE - 20% is quite a high deficit for non fast days. With a more or less accurate TDEE and 2 fasts per week you should already reach a weekly deficit of 20%. If it's working for you, then it's fine, but I got really hungry on a large deficit and also know some people, that actually stopped losing weight, while overrestricting. Just something to keep in mind.

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